Ægrus Somnium

Ok, so by now we all know about the Kanye west incident where he stormed the stage taking the mic and stating, “Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!”. Now if you saw the Beyonce video in question, it’s rather horrible, very bland and boring, three girls with rather large backsides just dancing and absolutely nothing else. Anyways, I was in another room playing a videogame during the incident when my fiancee came in and informed me, and said it reminded her of when the Beastie Boys did a similar thing when their video for Sabotage lost out for best director in ‘94.

“That happy-go-lucky R.E.M. ditty "Everybody Hurts" took home four awards, including Moonmen for Breakthrough Video and Best Director. While the band attempted to accept the latter trophy, Nathaniel Hornblower (aka Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys) stormed the stage proclaiming Spike Jonze should have won for directing the Beasties’ "Sabotage." In addition to screaming, "This is an outrage! This is a farce," he also claimed that he had the original idea for Star Wars.”

Today I decided to look at all the winners of the 2009 VMA’s and to my surprise what was on the list, none other then Sabotage, “Best Video (That Should Have Won A Moonman): ‘Beastie Boys – Sabotage’ .“ Just seems a bit coincidental to me that the night Kanye pulls a move just like Adam Yauch of the the Beastie boys does that the Sabotage video wins. Almost like while they were planning it they remembered the Sabotage incident and said hey, lets give that an award as well. But hey, it could just be me.